vagabondize

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verb

To act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

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Meanings

verbvagabondize (third-person singular simple present vagabondizes, present participle vagabondizing, simple past and past participle vagabondized)

present singular third person vagabondizes · participle present vagabondizing · participle past vagabondized · past vagabondized

  1. archaicintransitiveTo act as the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.

    "Because I will not permit you to go idling and vagabondizing about the village."

    1874, Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards, In the Days of My Youth
    1 more example

    Well, last summer, I was out that way among the lakes that lie sleeping in beauty, and along the streams that flow through the old woods, playing the savage and vagabondizing in a promiscuous way.

    1857, S. H. Hammond, Wild Northern Scenes

Origin

From vagabond + -ize.

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